Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell
Maria Elaine Cantwellis the junior United States Senator from Washington, serving since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and then in the United States House of Representatives from Washington's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1995, after which she worked as an executive for RealNetworks. She is Washington's second female senator, after Patty Murray. She served as Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
The Bush rate hike would have a devastating impact on our economy and jobs. I will not rest until the administration's plan is dead and gone.
I think a lot of people use it a lot more about me than I use it.
There is an average of over 500 oil spills a year on Alaskan North Slope, and over 4,000 spills in the last 10 years. Let's not pollute one of the great last refuges of America,
Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions about their medical care.
He's played this leadership role for (Sens.) Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, delivering for them, slamming down programs that I think would be effective and the people of Washington state want,
High fuel costs are costing people their jobs, their pensions and their businesses,
I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle.
It was no big deal. It didn't affect my vision and I could breathe OK.
In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.
I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.
The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.